About vertical.solar
Started by Over Easy Solar in January 2022, the vertical.solar research project develops data and knowledge necessary for developing the first commercial product by Over Easy Solar: the light weight, vertically mounted bifacial PV unit. As this is a new combination of PV components there are knowledge gaps regarding the technology. This project aims at developing a better understanding of the performance of this unique PV system, of the response to different external environmental factors on the performance of the VPV units and of optimizing the VPV units. The project is divided into four different workpackages: WP1 energy yield, WP2 wind load, WP3 materials & durability and WP4 product sustainability. Project partners are Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) and Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems.
Project meeting, Oslo, 2023
Progress
April 2022
Initial PVsyst model developed and verified for OES VPV product
April 2023
Computational fluid dynamics simulations performed
July 2023
First LCA analysis done on OES VPV system
August 2023
Simulation of mechanical strain from wind load on mounting structure
January 2023
Wind tunnel tests and analysis done
May 2023
Energy yield results presented at the Norwegian Solar Cell Conference in Son, Norway
July 2023
Hail testing done on OES panels
September 2023
Modeling and energy yield results presented at the 2023 EU PVSEC in Lisboa, Portugal
Team
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